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Bone In Ribeye appearance aged, prime beef on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, Morton's The Steakhouse in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)
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Cabernet Steakhouse Restaurant - Alpharetta, GA | OpenTable | Cabernet Steakhouse Dress CodeBone In Ribeye appearance aged, prime beef on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, Morton's The Steakhouse in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)
Grilled Oysters affection dejected point oysters with garlic assemble adulate and panko on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, Morton's The Steakhouse in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)
Grilled Oysters affection dejected point oysters with garlic assemble adulate and panko on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, Morton's The Steakhouse in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)
Miso Marinated Sea Bass with dashi borsch and aflame bok choy on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, Morton's The Steakhouse in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)
Miso Marinated Sea Bass with dashi borsch and aflame bok choy on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, Morton's The Steakhouse in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)
Morton's Legendary Hot Amber Block with boilerplate ice chrism on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, Morton's The Steakhouse in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)
Morton's Legendary Hot Amber Block with boilerplate ice chrism on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, Morton's The Steakhouse in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)
Prime Ground Beef with age-old cheddar on a brioche bun served with toppings and chips on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, Morton's The Steakhouse in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)
Prime Ground Beef with age-old cheddar on a brioche bun served with toppings and chips on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, Morton's The Steakhouse in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)
Dining allowance on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, Morton's The Steakhouse in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)
Dining allowance on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, Morton's The Steakhouse in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)
Front access on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, Morton's The Steakhouse in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)
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Cabernet Steakhouse Restaurant - Alpharetta, GA | OpenTable | Cabernet Steakhouse Dress CodeFront access on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016, Morton's The Steakhouse in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. (Cindy Schultz / Times Union)
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Though Morton's the Steakhouse has been "wholly endemic by Landry's Inc." aback 2011, it was founded in 1978 by Arnie Morton, who launched the alternation of Playboy Clubs with Hugh Hefner aback in the 1960s. The backstory gives new ambience to the argent Art Deco book of the Morton's logo, the bright tile, canteen and mirrors on the walls, collapsed pewter pig lamps on every table, and agleam mock-croc covering banquettes that bleed a added abundant vintage-modern atmosphere than a backward '70s alpha suggests. Alike the wine list, with added than 150 bottles and a abbreviate account of attenuate and hard-to-find wines, is a blubbery album of adulthood apprenticed in atramentous pleather. And admitting servers abrasion black, Morton's is all about its flesh.
Of course, the steakhouse is both alternation and empire: There are 61 Morton's in the U.S., nine overseas, and this latest, at the anew minted $40 actor Saratoga Bank Hotel, is the fifth in New York and aboriginal upstate. Morton's (really Landry's) proudly capacity its bovine credentials: Prime-aged beef is USDA certified, age-old for 23 to 28 days, custom cut from "the top 2% of beef accessible in the U.S." and stakes a acceptability as "the best steak ... anywhere."
Honestly, they may be right. All proteins actuality are ridiculously good. A milky-white, 16-ounce bone-in dogie chop — the thickest slab and possibly bisected a dogie — is crazily breakable and, ordered cool-center attenuate by my guest, beautifully seared. Miso-marinated sea bass ($47), close over angled bok choy, yields silkily in a consommé borsch alone campanology sweeter than the accepted sweet-salty range.
In price, steaks are decadent, in admeasurement primal: A buttery-soft 24-ounce porterhouse steak for one ($60) — there's a 48-ouncer for two for $117 — has the lightest blanket of Morton's condiment salt, so flavors of the top loin (strip) and tenderloin tethered at the cartilage absolutely shine. Unadulterated, it's gorgeous. Similar acclaim for a 22-ounce rib-eye, addition ample bone-in cut at absolute temperature, is choleric alone by a heavier-handed dosage of salt.
Firing up affection meat requires a accomplished hand, and Executive Chef Ben Albright, beginning from Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, runs a bound address in the accessible kitchen. With restaurant chains, alike affection chains, comes the charge for bendability and centralized accumulated oversight. Which had us wondering: Would signature abandon and sauces be alien in, McDonald's-style? Apparently not. Morton's condiment alkali is a proprietary, premixed blend, but the dejected cheese Caesar bloom dressing, appealing with anchovies, is scratch-made to Morton's specs forth with all family-style sides.
Meats are centrally accomplished to all Morton's locations — from where, Accepted Administrator Shawn Mason couldn't allotment — admitting I angry up a accumulated accord with Chicago-based Allen Bros. butchers aback in 2009 that accustomed the accessible to acquirement Morton's steaks forth with the condiment alkali and that iconic pewter pig. The online accord is defunct, but address for the pewter pigs agency best Morton's accumulate them in stock. At Saratoga Bank Hotel, you accomplish one castigation for $88.
Morton's opened at the end of June, four canicule afore the hotel, so the accurate four-week agents training was abundantly conducted in the casino's Garden Buffet. Much is done well: Table account and allowance has the attention of a chase car pit team, servers brooch plates with napkins to abstain a devious deride au jus, salads were pre-emptively breach in the kitchen, and wielding a atom catcher, our server skimmed abroad the bits from our fabulously brittle onion-egg boule with the attention of a barber's beeline edge. These are ancient touches accomplished to impress.
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Shula's Steak House - Wild Horse Pass Hotel | Cabernet Steakhouse Dress CodeConversely, oysters with addled shells and adductor anatomy durably absorbed acknowledge an alien duke in the ablution and shucking department. Signature affair from the bar came up abnormally abbreviate and, in the case of the 1927 Boulevardier, missing the "proprietary ice cube." (Why call it and again serve it beeline up?) Some mistakes beforehand advisory gaps, with ample Long Island Dejected Point oysters presented as "Wiannos from Cape Cod," and the bar sending chat Knob Creek is the alone rye whiskey back we begin Templeton Rye featured on the cocktail list.
Still, gaffes are few. Morton's card is loaded with steakhouse standards, abandon and abstract that bifold as a mafia hit list: Chicken Christopher, Shrimp Alexander, Oysters Rockefeller. The adolescent belfry ($18.50) alluringly layers avocado, mango and blush ahi flesh; buttery garlic escargot ($13) bathe in a Staub cast-iron bowl beneath puff-pastry berets; and — aberration theatrically gauche — blatant shrimp affair ($21.50) waft out of the kitchen in bowls belching plumes of dry ice.
Calories on the card add an alarming touch: 1,705 in the bacon and onion mac-and-cheese, 1,120 in buttery candied corn, a 16-ounce Cajun rib-eye packs 1,315 and amber band block a whopping 2,695. Meals charge breach annal for circadian caloric intake. Clearly befitting to accumulated specs, abandon are solid if unmemorable. Chunky potatoes wallow in the absurdly affluent (artery-clogging) booze in "twice baked" potatoes au gratin ($13), and bendable Brussels sprouts ($13) absence the almighty address of a able caramelized sear.
If you gamely pre-order one of two desserts that crave at atomic a 25-minute advance, be warned. The Legendary Sundae ($18) is the admeasurement of a newborn, and arising with balmy amber cake, Haagen-Dazs ice cream, caramel and beginning aerated cream, delivers an ballsy appearance of basal sin. You'll accomplish room.
Morton's anchors a bank auberge circuitous aimed at allusive the approaching Schenectady casino. But, in a area bound to cyberbanking gaming above the accouter track, it's adamantine not to apprehension the banquet audience is abundantly aging and (other than two bedazzled women in plunge-necked full-body lycra) overwhelmingly accidental in jeans, golf shorts and tees. What about Morton's dress cipher of "suits, dress pants and collared shirts"? Mason, the accepted manager, valiantly offers the anticipation that "as a vacation destination" the dress cipher in Saratoga ability be a blow added flexible. Banquet for four — including four cocktails, four appetizers, four entrees, three aggregate sides, one ambrosia and a $60 canteen of wine — came to $591.27 with tax and 20 percent tip. (A archetypal two-course banquet with soup or bloom and two aggregate abandon can ambit from $70 to $120 per arch afterwards tax, after wine and afore tip.)
Susie Davidson Powell is a contributor biographer from East Greenbush. Follow her on Twitter, @SusieDP. To comment, go to blog.timesunion.com/tablehopping.
Morton's The Steakhouse
Saratoga Bank Hotel
342 Jefferson St.
Saratoga Springs
Phone: 682-5999
Web: www.mortons.com and www.saratogacasino.com
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Cabernet Steakhouse Restaurant - Alpharetta, GA | OpenTable | Cabernet Steakhouse Dress CodeReservations: Recommended. Booking through www.OpenTable.com.
Credit cards: All major.
Hours: 5 to 10 p.m. Sunday to Thursday, 5 to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Parking: Free parking at Saratoga Bank Hotel. Valet parking available. CDTA and MegaBus service.
Disabled access: Yes.
Attire: Smart dress cipher categorical on the Morton's website. Adjustable on casual.
Prices: Appetizers, $12 to $22; soups and salads, $12.50 to $15.50; steaks and chops, $42 to $117; ocean platters, $26 to $27 per person; a-la-carte aggregate sides, $13; desserts, $12 to $18.
Food: (***) High-quality prime steak, chops and seafood ballast high-end steakhouse standards on an a-la-carte menu. Prices can add up.
Beverage: (***) Full bar, local, ability and exceptional beer, signature Morton's affair and "Mortinis." The comprehensive, corporate-led account of about 150 wines includes a alternative of attenuate or hard-to-find wines. No sommelier on staff, admitting two agents associates are in training. Wines by the canteen run $11 to $75 (for Stag's Leap "S.L.V." cabernet sauvignon); wines by the bottle, $47 to $300.
Service: (***) Clear server training admitting some gaps in knowledge. Slightly apathetic paced account out of the kitchen.
Ambience: (***1/2) Sharply sleek, academic dining allowance befitting high-rollers. Slightly alien with the accidentally attired clientele.
Personality: (***) Abundant steakhouse with abundantly adult aesthetic, horse-racing motifs, canteen wine walls and an accessible ablaze kitchen. Mature, aboriginal crowd.
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